Acquiring skills, advice

Carefully choose your co-workers and your boss, especially in the early, more formative part of your career. These frequent associations in a variety of settings are crucial because they will influence your attitude toward your profession, will affect the knowledge and skills you acquire, and will determine the expansion of your network. Unless you are an unusually independent, highly self-disciplined person, you will be shaped by the people enviromnent within whieh you work. Consider this advice of humorist and writer, Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. To reiterate, if you have high aspirations, carefully choose your co-workers and your boss. ... 

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